Month: February 2020

Statement from TCEU Local 416 – CUPE and the City of Toronto The TCEU Local 416 – CUPE and the City of Toronto have been in collective bargaining since September, including for the last month with the assistance of a Ministry of Labour appointed...

Earlier today the City received the No Board Report from the Ministry of Labour for three of the four Local 79 collective agreements (Full-time, Unit B – Part-time, Recreation Workers' Part-time), which sets the legal strike/lockout deadline for CUPE Local 79, the...

Good afternoon. This afternoon, I met with our bargaining team for an update on our ongoing negotiations with CUPE Local 416. Talks have been progressing – we provided an offer to the Union yesterday and they have passed it back to our bargaining team this afternoon....

On Thursday, Toronto’s residents and businesses may be facing a strike by TCEU Local 416 – CUPE, the union that represents the City’s 5,000 outside workers. This may well be followed a few weeks later by CUPE Local 79 and their 22,000 members. Local 79 represents our inside workers.

The bargaining teams for the City of Toronto and CUPE Local 79, the union representing City inside workers, have been in collective bargaining since the beginning of December. In this time we have met with CUPE Local 79 on a number of occasions and discussed a wide...

The City of Toronto today announced its contingency plan for service delivery in the event of a labour disruption involving members of TCEU Local 416 – CUPE, the union representing the City’s outside workers. The City's approximately 5,000 outside workers will be in a...

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING UPDATE FROM THE CHAIR OF THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING SUB-COMMITTEE Deputy Mayor Denzil Minnan-Wong, the chair of the City's Collective Bargaining sub-committee, released the following update today: The City of Toronto has always strived to treat...

The bargaining committees for the City and TCEU, Local 416 – CUPE have been in discussions regarding resuming negotiations. The Ministry of Labour appointed conciliator is not available to the parties until February 22, 2020. Until then, the bargaining committees will...

The City today received the No Board Report from the Ministry of Labour, which sets the legal strike/lockout deadline for TCEU Local 416 – CUPE, the union representing City outside workers, at 12:01 a.m. on February 27, 2020. The City and Local 416 have been in...

The City supports employees' rights to take extended pregnancy and parental leave and provides one of the most generous pregnancy and parental leaves in the public sector. In fact, the City’s pregnancy and parental leave is one of the items cited in our Top 100...